IAIDQ's Information and Data Quality Newsletter
Vol. 5 Issue 4—October 2009
In this edition…
Power, Politics, and Partnership: Strategies for Information Quality Leaders
Maureen Clarry continues her Power, Politics, and Partnership series by providing concrete strategies that Information Quality Leaders can adopt to counter systematic, dysfunctional patterns of organizational behaviour.
Evaluating Data Capture Processes
Jack Olson believes that data capture processes are the single most important place where data can be made accurate or inaccurate. His article gives us a checklist that we can use to evaluate our own data capture processes.
Data Quality: Perception v. Reality
Graham Rhind highlights key findings from a Data Quality survey commissioned from MCC International Ltd by Capscan. Read the survey results to compare your own organization against survey respondents.
Quality of Derived Data. Part 2: Ambiguities of Data Definitions and Collections
Michael Scofield completes his two-part series on the Quality of Derived Data, and explains why attention must be given to the way data are summarized and manipulated if decision-makers are to receive meaningful information.
The Key Principles of Data Quality
Guy Tozer presents six key principles by which any organization's data architecture can be judged, and outlines the possible implications of each principle in a typical systems environment.
Key Performance Indicators for Information Quality Part 2 — How to Measure
Daragh O Brien, in Part 2 of his series on KPIs for Information Quality, describes practical considerations when deciding how best to summarize raw metrics data into information quality measures.
DQ Asia Pacific 2009: an Opportunity for Networking
Nonna Milmeister shares insights gleaned from the Data Quality Asia Pacific Conference. This article is a must-read for anyone who's still debating whether or not to attend the 2010 IDQ Conference in San Diego.
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